Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1886 — A Foreign View. [ARTICLE]

A Foreign View.

The following extract from a Berlin paper about American journalism is too curious not to be translated” “It is increditable to what expedient American newspapers resort to gain a point over a competitor. Three eatable papers, printed on sugar cakes flattened out, appear at present, in America; two on rolled chewing tobacco, five on fly-paper, one on porous plaster, seven on linen handkerchiefs. Tfiree publishers have each of their subscribers photographed: yearly and make them a present of a dozen photos, several give them free burial, five invite them to dinner once a week, and 251 give each a doctor’s certificate. ”